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Ikirby: I added an example of syncretism in inflectional paradigms coming from German

2021-02-08T16:42:01Z

I added an example of syncretism in inflectional paradigms coming from German

Wohlgemuth at 16:35, 9 June 2009

2009-06-09T16:35:48Z

Wohlgemuth: + utrecht

2009-06-09T16:34:37Z

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Linguipedia: from LP

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'''Syncretism''' is the situation where one morphological form corresponds to two or more morphosyntactic descriptions.

===Examples===
E.g. English ''bet'' (in ''I bet you ten pounds'') is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds.

===Origin===
The term has originally been used in the sense of "combining different religions", and was transferred to linguistics in the 19th century.

===Links===
[http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/ Syncretism database] of the [[Surrey Morphology Group]]

===References===
*Baerman, Matthew & Brown, Dunstan & Corbett, Greville G. 2005. ''The syntax-morphology interface: A study of syncretism.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

===Other languages===
*German [[Synkretismus]]
*Russian [[синкретизм]]

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 ===Examples===
 E.g. [[English]] ''bet'' (in ''I bet you ten pounds'') is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds.
 In [[Ancient Greek]], the nominative and vocative of the feminine singular/plural case forms are identical (e.g. ''khÃ³oraa'' 'a land', ''khÃ´oraa'' 'O, land', ''khÃ´oray'' 'lands', ''khÃ´oray'' 'O, lands'). The same is true for the nominative and accusative of the neuter singular/plural case forms: ''dÃ´oron'' 'house-nom./acc.sg.', ''dÃ´ora'' 'house-nom./acc.pl.'.

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 In [[Ancient Greek]], the nominative and vocative of the feminine singular/plural case forms are identical (e.g. ''khÃ³oraa'' 'a land', ''khÃ´oraa'' 'O, land', ''khÃ´oray'' 'lands', ''khÃ´oray'' 'O, lands'). The same is true for the nominative and accusative of the neuter singular/plural case forms: ''dÃ´oron'' 'house-nom./acc.sg.', ''dÃ´ora'' 'house-nom./acc.pl.'.
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 ===Origin===

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 ===Examples===
-E.g. English ''bet'' (in ''I bet you ten pounds'') is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds.
+E.g. [[English]] ''bet'' (in ''I bet you ten pounds'') is syncretic between Present and Past, as seen in comparison with I give/gave you ten pounds.
 ===Origin===
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 ===Links===
 [http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/ Syncretism database] of the [[Surrey Morphology Group]]
 ===References===